Comments on: Joe Satriani Comments on Copyright Lawsuit With Coldplay

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Tue, 05 May 2009 04:45:09 +0000

[...] may remember the story of Joe Satriani suing Coldplay for copyright infringement with their song “Viva La Vida”. The song bears a striking resemblance to Joe’s [...]

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Guitar MX Blog » Blog Archive » The Best of 2008 — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:49:58 +0000

[...] Joe Satriani Comments on Copyright Lawsuit With Coldplay Joe Satriani filed a lawsuit against Coldplay in 2008, claiming their popular song “Viva La Vida” is a rip off of his song “If I Could Fly” [...]

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By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:55:06 +0000

“there are only 12 notes to choose from after all” …
Well, there are only 21 letters in our alphabet, but no one is trying to rewrite “War and Piece” and call it his own.

It is tryue that it’s getting difficult to create something completely unique, and chances are that Coldplay didn’t want to cheat. Perhaps the melody was there in their heads without knowing where did it come from… but Satriani has all the right to sue and win the case. No doubt.

By: rv

rv — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:12:58 +0000

I believe they could both have easily come up with that short chord progression seperately.
Coldplay’s version goes into a chorus, and a bridge later on, and I don’t know what Joe’s does.

I think we’ll find that Coldplay is innocent, and it is simply a nice chord progression. And the melody that Joe plays is a little different from that short clip.
Take both the whole songs in context and then make a judgement.

We are in a world where it is becoming more difficult to come up with unique music.
I think we’ll see more and more of this problem as time goes on, there are only 12 notes to choose from after all.